Which again brings us back to the topic of transparency and honesty. What types of information are so divisive as not to reach the membership, afterall it's our organization. Back door politics and closed door meetings have no place in an organization such as MAAC because it leaves us all open to imagining what's going on and worse, it lets those that have agendas of their own insert them because of the lack of information. This leads us right back to the issue at hand, that is complaining about our organization on-line, without all the facts.

Putting the quarterly meeting information in the MAAC magazine and on-line would be a good idea and help to stop the amount of disinformation we seem to be so good at. BTW the reason the MAAC magazine is published is that it is a more cost effective way of getting the three legal notices required by law (required for non-profit societies, charitable organizations etc) out to the members. Its funny but the amount of money that it would take to draft the information from your MAAC AGM, your local AZM and the meeting minutes of the AGM, publish the information and mail it out to our membership 3 times a year is about even with what we currently pay for the magazine now, because of the advertising subsidies that the publisher receives from advertisers. The other benefit is that we get to see our RC disciplines looked at, reported on and get notices of what going on in the Canadian RC sphere of things. For those that believe that the magazine is an unnecessary expense, I would have to argue strenuously against that belief. For most the magazine is welcomed when it arrives, for others such as myself the deadlines come much to quickly...Speaking of deadlines I've got to run...We've all been asked to get our articles in early for the next issue...For those that read the Electrics column, I'll see you there soon!

Doug